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Author : Willy Ley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Dragons in Amber, Further Adventures of a Romantic Naturalist, by Willy Ley written by Willy Ley and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Willy Ley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Dragons in Amber written by Willy Ley and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jared S. Buss
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813059860
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Willy Ley written by Jared S. Buss and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beautifully written. Reveals the vicissitudes of an extraordinarily interesting life."--Michael J. Neufeld, author of Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War "Willy Ley has been a mystery among spaceflight historians for many years. His role as science writer, advocate, and popularizer is known to many but understood by few. This book unpacks that story."--Roger D. Launius, associate director of collections and curatorial affairs, National Air and Space Museum "Ley lit the fire of interplanetary enthusiasm in the hearts of generations of young space cadets. Long overdue, this biography establishes the details and the ups and downs of his career."--Tom D. Crouch, author of Lighter Than Air: An Illustrated History of Balloons and Airships "Beyond recovering the fascinating and many contradictory aspects of Ley's extraordinary life, Buss has provided a valuable case study of the complex relationship between science popularization, mass media, and scientific advocacy in the twentieth century."--Asif A. Siddiqi, author of The Red Rockets' Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957 Willy Ley inspired young rocket scientists and would-be astronauts around the world to imagine a future of interplanetary travel long before space shuttles existed. This is the first biography of the science writer and rocketeer who predicted and boosted the rise of the Space Age. Born in Germany, Ley became involved in amateur rocketry until the field was taken over by the Nazis. He fled to America, where he forged a new life as a weapons expert and journalist during World War II and as a rocket researcher after the war. As America's foremost authority on rockets, missiles, and space travel, he authored books and scientific articles, while also regularly writing for science fiction pulp magazines and publishing what he termed romantic zoology--a blend of zoology, cryptozoology, history, and mythology. He even consulted for television's Tom Corbett, Space Cadet and the Disney program Man in Space, thrilling audiences with a romanticized view of what spaceflight would be like. Yet as astronauts took center stage and scientific intellectuals such as Wernher von Braun became influential during the space race, Ley lost his celebrity status. With an old-fashioned style of popular writing and eccentric perspectives influenced by romanticism and science fiction, he was ignored by younger historians. This book returns Willy Ley to his rightful place as the energizer of an era--a time when scientists and science popularizers mixed ranks and shared the spotlight so that our far-fetched, fantastic dreams could turn into the reality of tomorrow.
Author : Avram Davidson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 076530760X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Adventures in Unhistory written by Avram Davidson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Where did Sinbad Sail? * Who Fired the Phoenix? * The Boy Who Cried Werewolf * The Great Rough Beast * Postscript on Prester John * The Secret of Hyperborea * What Gave All Those Mammoths Cold Feet? And many more--fictional? authoritative? fantastic? deadpan?--investigations into the real, the true...and the things that should be true PREFACE BY PETER S. BEAGLE ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE BARR "Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, nobody knows what a wombat looks like and everyone knows what a dragon looks like." Not a novel, not a book of short stories, Adventures in Unhistory is a book of the fantastic--a compendium of magisterial examinations of Mermaids, Mandrakes, and Mammoths; Dragons, Werewolves, and Unicorns; the Phoenix and the Roc; about places such as Sicily, Siberia, and the Moon; about heroic, sinister, and legendary persons such as Sindbad, and Aleister Crowley, and Prester John; and--revealed at last--the Secret of Hyperborea. The facts are here, the foundations behind rumors, legends, and the imaginations of generations of tale-spinners. But far from being dry recitals, these meditations, or lectures, or deadpan prose performances are as lively, as crazily inventive, as witty as the best fiction of the author, a writer praised by Gardner Dozois as "one of the great short story writers of our times." Who, on the subject of Dragons, could write coldly, dispassionately, guided only by logic? Certainly not Avram Davidson. Certain facts, these facts, deserve more than recitation; they deserve flourish, verve, gusto, style--the late, great Avram Davidson's unique voice. That prose which, in the words of Peter S. Beagle's Preface to this volume, "cries out to be read aloud."
Author : Willy Ley
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dragons in Amber written by Willy Ley and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1951 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160831515
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Realizing the Dream of Flight written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2005-12-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays in celebration of the Wright brothers' first flight 100 years ago grew out of presentations by a group of prominent scholars in 2003 at a conference sponsored by the NASA History Division and held at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The volume focuses on the careers of some of the many men and women who helped to realize the dream of flight both through the atmosphere and beyond. These accounts are original and compelling because they examine the history of flight through the lens of biography.
Author : Virginia Parker Dawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
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Author : Edmund Wilson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374600252
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)
Download or read book The Bit Between My Teeth written by Edmund Wilson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bit Between My Teeth: A Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965 collects Edmund Wilson's masterful essays written during a fifteen year span. Originally published in leading periodicals like the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, and the New Yorker, this collection features literary criticism, essays, and reviews by Wilson on F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.L. Mencken, Bernard Shaw, Max Beerbohm, James Branch Cabell, Marquis de Sade, and more.
Author : Loren Coleman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439147795
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Cryptozoology A To Z written by Loren Coleman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate quest for the world's most mysterious creatures The Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowman -- these are the names of the elusive beasts that have caught the eye and captured the imaginations of people around the world for centuries. Recently, tales of these "monsters" have been corroborated by an increase in sightings, and out of these legends a new science has been born: cryptozoology -- the study of hidden animals. Cryptozoology A to Z, the first encyclopedia of its kind, contains nearly two hundred entries, including cryptids (the name given to these unusual beasts), new animal finds, and the explorers and scientists who search for them. Loren Coleman, one of the world's leading cryptozoologists, teams up with Jerome Clark, editor and author of several encyclopedias, to provide these definitive descriptions and many never-before-published drawings and photographs from eyewitnesses' detailed accounts. Full of insights into the methods of these scientists, exciting tales of discovery, and the history and evolution of this field, Cryptozoology A to Z is the most complete reference ever of the newest zoological science.
Author : Lance E. Davis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226137902
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book In Pursuit of Leviathan written by Lance E. Davis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pursuit of Leviathan traces the American whaling industry from its rise in the 1840s to its precipitous fall at the end of the nineteenth century. Using detailed and comprehensive data that describe more than four thousand whaling voyages from New Bedford, Massachusetts, the leading nineteenth-century whaling port, the authors explore the market for whale products, crew quality and labor contracts, and whale biology and distribution, and assess the productivity of the American fleet. They then examine new whaling techniques developed at the end of the nineteenth century, such as modified clippers and harpoons, and the introduction of darting guns. Despite the common belief that the whaling industry declined due to a fall in whale stocks, the authors argue that the industry's collapse was related to changes in technology and market conditions. Providing a wealth of historical information, In Pursuit of Leviathan is a classic industry study that will provide intriguing reading for anyone interested in the history of whaling.
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Publisher : princeton alumni weekly
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Princeton Alumni Weekly written by and published by princeton alumni weekly. This book was released on 1950 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lynton Keith Caldwell
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822318668
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (186 download)
Download or read book International Environmental Policy written by Lynton Keith Caldwell and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this newly revised and expanded edition of the award-winning International Environmental Policy, Lynton Keith Caldwell updates his comprehensive survey of the global international movement for protection of the environment. Serving as a history of international cooperation on environmental issues, this book focuses primarily on the development of international agreements and institutional arrangements--both governmental and nongovernmental--along with the impact of science, technology, trade, and communication on environmental policy. With implications for multinational commerce, population policy, agriculture, energy issues, biological and cultural diversity, transnational equity, ideology, and education, this book takes a broad view of the policy outcomes of what may be the most important social movement of the 20th century, and addresses the events and politics that have significantly affected the movement over the last twenty years and will continue to affect it into the next century.
Author : Matt Bille
Publisher : Hangar 1 Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)
Download or read book Of Books and Beasts written by Matt Bille and published by Hangar 1 Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the controversial field of cryptozoology, plagued by long-lost accounts and internet fantasies, the essential core of usable information is largely maintained in books. Science writer and cryptozoology researcher Matt Bille offers 400 reviews of significant books in cryptozoology, supporting sciences like biology, and cryptozoological fiction. Matt’s selections, based on 45 years of reading and writing on zoology and cryptozoology, favor reliable science and history, providing an essential foundation for enthusiasts and skeptics alike. The search for unknown animals starts here. "Looking for a concise but reliable survey of the most noteworthy cryptozoological books past and present? Look no further - here it is!" - Dr. Karl P. N. Shuker, Zoologist
Author : M. Graham Netting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Collected Reprints written by M. Graham Netting and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Canadian Field-naturalist written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sampson Low
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Author : Los Angeles County Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Books and Notes written by Los Angeles County Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
